Adapting Third Edition Templates To Fourth Edition

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Originally Posted by Otaku

Keeping with the spirit of GURPS Warriors, I'm thinking the Heroic Knight template should reasonably accommodate a historical knight or your stereotypical fantasy knight.

A historical knight could be anything from a mounted man-at-arms to a minor, untitled landlord who wouldn't think of fighting. Sir William Lucas from Pride and Prejudice is a fictional knight drawn from Jane Austen's early 19th century acquaintances, but he's not a warrior of any kind.

Even historical knights who are warriors vary from William the Conqueror's mounted spearmen in heavy mail to zweihander wielding infantrymen in Maximillian plate. It's not a precise term and it covers over 1000 years of history.

Originally Posted by Otaku

I wasn't worrying about Dungeon Fantasy, as I thought those books already contained templates for these kinds of things.

I was mostly referencing DFRG to deal with slayer training and to illustrate that there are a bunch of different "Knight" templates in GURPS canon of wildly different abilities and concept.

Originally Posted by Otaku

Given my lack of knowledge when it comes to how historical knights were trained, even if some unarmed combat training won't do them much good, I'll still include it in the template. I would like to know what unarmed combat Skills and/or Combat Techniques seem like the best approximation of the unarmed combat training knights underwent.

See Martials Arts 4e, pp 175-177. It goes from Brawling and Wrestling, to Wrestling, to what is effectively Judo, depending on the time period and the weapons and armor in use.